Darkness, Darkness Burning Bright – Prelude (2022).At this year’s edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Gaëlle Rouard’s Darkness, Darkness Burning Bright premiered in a highly compromised form. Because the decision to move the festival’s offerings online was so last minute, Rouard, a French moving image artist based near Grenoble, did not have enough time to have the film scanned, and thus it was shown as a digital camera recording of the projection. Though difficult to watch in this form, it suggested the reward that would come from seeing the film properly.Rouard’s process relies on chemical experimentation as a key element of her own cinematographic approach. Where earlier (and shorter) works employed found footage, others suggest found footage through found sound, though the images are originals—and sometimes heavily chemically processed ones. Likewise, Darkness, Darkness Burning Bright is composed entirely of original footage and is her first feature-length film,...
- 7/21/2022
- MUBI
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